Dingo Breakfast
A yawn, a leak, and a good look around.
Friday, August 22, 2008
• Twitter is love
It's not very often that I praise the wondrous technology that is social networking (who am I kidding), but I have to say that I really, really, really love Twitter.
Six months ago, @joerib turned me on to Twitter. I didn't get it, I thought it was stupid and frustrating and that these people were complete idiots for wasting their time talking to empty space about nothing... and then I read the 'first rule of Twitter':
"You're going to have to follow at least 60-100 people before you start to 'get it'."
Only then did I start to see the conversations form, to see who was talking to who, who moved the community, who was snarky, who was serious, who paid attention to other people's commentary, who was social, who was introverted, you name it. All these personalities started to emerge and I started to learn about people in places I wasn't particularly familiar with, who did things I wasn't familiar with,learned about what it means to be famous in the land of social media and some of these folks even became friends. I have no way of knowing whether or not I would have ever met any of these people otherwise.
I have to admit that it's pretty unique to be the voyeur to so many people's lives. I think that the mask of anonymity really helps people to vent their frustrations in a public arena and not even feel the least bit badly about doing so. I also think it's fascinating that people openly express their personalities in text so effectively. So far, the folks I have met have been spot-on to their Twitter personae (@scottypboston, @jpostman, @cathybrooks) and I imagine that others are exactly the same way (@mattyfo, @CoachDeb, @Geletka, @dooce, @FabGirl, @SeanMarler). I can't wait to meet you all.
Most importantly, I think it has been most encouraging that people in this circle really do talk to each other - professional recommendations are abundant, and I was fortunate enough to have landed my job just because @joerib introduced me to Twitter six months ago. Pretty f-ing cool, if you ask me.
Six months ago, @joerib turned me on to Twitter. I didn't get it, I thought it was stupid and frustrating and that these people were complete idiots for wasting their time talking to empty space about nothing... and then I read the 'first rule of Twitter':
"You're going to have to follow at least 60-100 people before you start to 'get it'."
Only then did I start to see the conversations form, to see who was talking to who, who moved the community, who was snarky, who was serious, who paid attention to other people's commentary, who was social, who was introverted, you name it. All these personalities started to emerge and I started to learn about people in places I wasn't particularly familiar with, who did things I wasn't familiar with,learned about what it means to be famous in the land of social media and some of these folks even became friends. I have no way of knowing whether or not I would have ever met any of these people otherwise.
I have to admit that it's pretty unique to be the voyeur to so many people's lives. I think that the mask of anonymity really helps people to vent their frustrations in a public arena and not even feel the least bit badly about doing so. I also think it's fascinating that people openly express their personalities in text so effectively. So far, the folks I have met have been spot-on to their Twitter personae (@scottypboston, @jpostman, @cathybrooks) and I imagine that others are exactly the same way (@mattyfo, @CoachDeb, @Geletka, @dooce, @FabGirl, @SeanMarler). I can't wait to meet you all.
Most importantly, I think it has been most encouraging that people in this circle really do talk to each other - professional recommendations are abundant, and I was fortunate enough to have landed my job just because @joerib introduced me to Twitter six months ago. Pretty f-ing cool, if you ask me.
Labels: business, change, communication, social media, Twitter, work
1 Comments:
Unknown said...
Looking forward to meeting you someday as well. Well have milk and cookies and sing Sesame Street songs.
Etc
